Dennis Caswell to read at RASP reading and open mic night on Friday

Published 10:56 am Tuesday, April 23, 2013

The Redmond Association Spokenword (RASP) will hold a reading and open mic night featuring Dennis Caswell from 7-9 p.m. on Friday at the Old Redmond Schoolhouse Community Center, 16600 N.E. 80th St.

The event is free and open to all ages.

Caswell lives outside of Woodinville and works as a software engineer in the aviation industry. He holds degrees in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley and University of California, Los Angeles and spent the 1980s and 1990s designing and programming computer games and educational software in northern California, where he grew up, while his friends kept giving him books about poetry.

Caswell moved to Washington with his family in 1997. His work has appeared in Floating Bridge Review, Crab Creek Review, Burnside Review, Monarch Review online and other assorted journals and anthologies. His first full-length collection, “Phlogiston,” was published in 2012 by Floating Bridge Press.

For more information on Caswell, visit denniscaswell.com.

For more information on RASP, visit www.raspread.com.